# The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon by H. De Vere Stacpoole has 62,298 words.

## At a glance

1908 novel by Henry de Vere Stacpoole.

- **Author:** [H. De Vere Stacpoole](https://musael.com/books/authors/h-de-vere-stacpoole.md) (1863–1951)
- **First published:** 1908
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 62,298
- **Reading time:** 4 h 9 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 11 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 9 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 28 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Blue Lagoon is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-de-vere-stacpoole/the-blue-lagoon
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/393

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 64,789
- Chapters: 53
- Dialogue: 16% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-de-vere-stacpoole/the-blue-lagoon (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/393 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3822730
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Lagoon_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5289607W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/393

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-blue-lagoon